When Chicago ownership callls Davidson and ask him why did you not get anything in return for Kane , when the owner knows that Kane is leaving in free agency and at the time still had control of him. It is going to make Davidson very inept as a GM.

Ok let's flip this around for a second, say Kane does only waive for NY and this is the only offer Drury is willing to put forward. Do you think Davidson will just forget that, do you think other teams GM's are going to overlook the fact that Drury isn't offering fair value? This sort of offer is as bad for Drury's career as the OF MB made for Aho was for his.

Not at all. I think that if Drury pulls it off he's going to look like a genius. Will Davidson forget it? Probably not, but that's not Drury's problem. I don't think that other GM's will care even a little bit, because they would do the SAME EXACT THING if it was their team and not NYR (see what happened with Giroux last year)


MB's downfall was not the Aho OS, it was:
- The Drouin Trade
- Drafting poorly for almost a decade
- Trading the compensation for KK for Dvorak
- Downturn in the careers of Price & Weber


MB 1st round draft picks - Galchenyuk, McCarron, Scherbak, Juulsen, Sergachyov (one of his best picks he traded for Drouin), Poehling, Kotkaniemi (lost to OS), Caufield (his best pick), Guhle, Mailloux (lol)

First off every GM knows when you have leverage use it that is just part of business. Second an offersheet is frown upon because the players who get offersheet are RFA under full control by there teams and for the original team to meet the offersheet it takes capspace that team would not want to willingly give up.

so about getting two 2nds... how about one and a 4th?

Aged like milk.

Well, I must say that the Hawks screwed themselves out of a good package here but I am big enough to admit when I am wrong. In this case I was wrong.